Happy Thursday!
Shane Carlson captured today’s featured image of flowering lupine plants in Wildwood.
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On this day:
In 1960, The Alfred Hitchcock horror-thriller classic Psycho premiered. Its shower scene is one of the best-known in the history of film.
In 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the world’s first female space traveller, completing 48 orbits on board Vostok 6 before returning to Earth.
Today’s weather:
Thursday, June 16, is expected to be mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers in the morning and a high of 14 degrees Celsius. The forecast calls for winds from the southeast at 30 km/h near the Strait of Georgia in the afternoon. The evening low is expected to be eight degrees.
For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it...
Paper Excellence will qualify for the third year of a revitalization tax exemption program even though it is no longer manufacturing paper products at the Catalyst Paper Tis’kwat mill.
Meanwhile…
Powell River RCMP are investigating two recent thefts, one from a contractor working at Town Centre Mall, and another at a residence north of town.
